VOLCANO MADNESS: Re: [Geology2] Florida Man Acting Like a Child, Suing Government to Get His Dinosaur Back

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Re: [Geology2] Florida Man Acting Like a Child, Suing Government to Get His Dinosaur Back

Don't forget the term, "Cambrian;" also, the father of modern geology was born in Scotland (Hutton). The creator of the first geologic map, William Smith, hails from southern Britain. And the list goes on and on...

Lin

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Peter Land <peter@pland.org> wrote:

"I didn't know they even had reptiles in Great Britain?" Oh dear, might I suggest he reads up on where the term Dinosaur was coined?

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Subject: [Geology2] Florida Man Acting Like a Child, Suing Government to Get His Dinosaur Back

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Florida Man Acting Like a Child, Suing Government to Get His Dinosaur Back

Taylor Berman

Eric Prokopi, a rare fossils dealer from Florida, is throwing a tantrum because the U.S. government took away his dinosaur skeleton. The skeleton - a Tyrannosaurus bataar that's nicknamed Ty - technically belongs to Mongolia, where the bones were found, or so says Fast and Furious 2 co-star Eric Holder's henchmen, and Mongolians. Naturally, Prokopi is whining about all this.

Prokopi has said in a statement that he brought the bones into the country in March 2010 when they were just chunks of rocks and broken bones. He said he turned them into "an impressive skeleton."

That may be true, but the U.S. government thinks Prokopi smuggled the bones into the country using forged papers.

The U.S. said the documents disguised the dinosaur skeleton, which originated in Mongolia, as reptile bones from Great Britain.

I didn't know they even had reptiles in Great Britain, but anyway: an auction house, Heritage Auctions, is also taking part in the lawsuit, probably because the 70 million year-old dinosaur rich person toy is valued at $1.05 million.

The seizure is unprecedented, according to the lawsuit at least, since dinosaur skeletons from "China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia have been openly sold on the international market and collected in the United States by people and museums for generations."
Then again, that's totally something a screaming toddler would shout if you took away his legos, even if most of them belonged to a neighbor down the street.

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